Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Gullibility of the Populous

How foolish are the masses if we think that humans are the most intelligent beings in the cosmos? Based on the way we have treated one another since the evolution of man, this is clearly not the case.

How ridiculous must we be as a species, if we believe we have 'dominion' over all the other creatures that make up our global and cosmological ecosystem. These preposterous religious suppositions are based on a 2000-year-old book written by primitive men who thought the Earth was flat; who thought our planet was the very center of the universe, when it's not even the center of its own planetary (solar) system; nor is it the center of its own galaxy.

The image to right was taken by the Hubble telescope. It is a picture of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Andromeda and the Milky Way galaxies are only two of trillions of galaxies in the observable universe (the visible or observable universe is what we have been able to study telescopically and is less that 5 percent of the cosmos).

In Greek mythology, Andromeda is known as "the Chained Lady," and was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia, from the kingdom of Aethiopia. The allegorical legend states that Andromeda was "chained to a rock to be eaten by Cetus the Sea Monster."

Located north of the celestial equator, Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 14,696,575,500,000,000,000 (14.6 quintillion) miles away from planet Earth. The distance can be calculated by multiplying a light-year - approximately 5,878,630,000,000 miles - by the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy: 2,500,000 multiplied by 5,878,630,000,000 = 1.4696575E+19 or 14,696,575,500,000,000,000 miles.

For those of you who want to protect the absurd fallicy that humans are the only thinking beings in the universe, and that we have a 'special place' in the cosmos, look at the image again.

"Believers" who want to keep the religious myth alive, cling to the excuse, "scientist have not found life outside of our solar system." That's because it's too far away.

Consider the fact that if we could travel at the speed of light - 186,000 miles per second - it would take about 2.2 million earth years to reach our closest galactic neighbors. Therefore, the aforementioned cherry-picking, 'God of the Gaps', biblical apologist argument that "we've not found life," does not hold water.

Eleemosynary Energy

We are made of the same elements that stars are made of, "we are made of star stuff," as the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan put it.

The human body is comprised of the same elements: carbon, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen.

The stars, planets, galaxies, and the universe are billions of years old. It is a biological and geological fact that the three main cycles in any ecosystem are water, carbon, and nitrogen. If these three main ingredients, that are vital to the makeup of the cosmos, have regenerated for billions of years, what does this say about the human species ability to transition through various forms of energy, especially since it is a part of the very same ecosystem?

In our purest state we are energy. Energy moves into form (birth), through form (life), and out of form (physical death), and the cycle is repeated, similar to the cycles of water, carbon, and nitrogen. Over 90% of the human body is comprised of the aforementioned elements. The same water you shower with has been around for billions of years. If these elements have existed for eons, then, so have you.

The image to the right shows some of our planets' greatest philanthropic agitators, who have transitioned from this life:

Mandela, King, Gandhi, Bojaxhiu, Einstein, John and Robert Kennedy.

Religious fundamentalist would indomitably suggest that their energy resides in a heavenly or hellish dimension, depending on their secular ecclesiastical beliefs.

If the primary purpose of incarnating into being, is to learn and evolve, then science, mathematics, and the laws of the universe clearly indicate that energy does not remain stagnant. It perpetually flows through electricity, through the transference of heat, and throughout the universal ecosystem.

Do you ever wonder about the energy, the soul, the spirit (whatever you care to label it) of those benevolent beings who made the world a much better place to live?

It's a rhetorical question, feel free to answer if you'd like. If you do, please spare me the apocryphal stories about "sitting on the right hand of God," because such a scenario would create a serious case of ennui that would certainly not be beneficial to the eternal maturation of the soul.

Who Are We?

If it's true that everything originated from the center of a star, and that every atom in each of us, is from the center of a star, then we're all the same. A tree in the forest, animals, insects, birds, and humans, all have been recycled millions of times, as part of a universal, cosmological ecosystem.

Therefore, it's only me out there so what is there to fear? There's nothing to be afraid of because it's all us. The separation comes from being born, being given a name and a human identity. We come into this existence as individual consciousness in order to experience and evolve.

Religion exploits the fact that we have been temporarily separated from oneness. We have an inert yearning to be a part of the overall One again. The Roman Catholic Church and their absurd holy books, has craftily exploited this innate desire by creating a God with commandments, a 'chosen people', eternal rewards or punishments, and a hierarchy starting with the Pope, to enforce their evangelical rubbish.

A cup of water dipped into the ocean, would it fear the ocean? The water inside would have no need to be "ocean-fearing," as religion says we should be "god-fearing?" Should the water in the cup, from the ocean made of the same elements, fear the wrath of its originating source?

Regardless of what befalls the water in the cup, it yearns to be reconnected to its original source much like our energy, spirit, soul, or essence, yearns to be reunited with its initial source.

Whether you comprehend this analogy or not, please believe, that which you originate from, you shall return to.

Genesis 3:19 states, "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

To the benighted misfortune of 2.5 billion fundamentalist believers, this particular scripture is egregiously incorrect. The mass of the human body (at least 98% of it) is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Study the cycles of carbon, water, and nitrogen, and you will clearly see that these elements are part of a timeless regeneration process, and so are you.


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Humanity and the Ecosystem

An ecosystem is defined as a network of interactions among organisms and their environment. A community of living and nonliving components such as animals, plants, microbes, water, air, and mineral soil, all interacting in tandem. 

Humankind's foolish assumption that it has to "dominate and subdue," "to have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth" (Genesis 1:28), is the primary reason our planet is imbalanced and facing oblivion. 

As the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan stated, "In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." If we do not learn to live in harmony with other components in our planetary ecosystem, we will suffer the same fate, the same ego-systematic annihilation, that myriad other planets have faced. Earth will certainly not be the first planet destroyed by its inhabitants and unfortunately will not be the last. 

Astrophysicist and Science Communicator, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, stated, "Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth." 

Aphorisms that have withstood the test of time, and warn us of not operating as one, are collectively ignored. We forget about, "united we stand, divided we fall." We disregard the fact that "We are one," that we are "branches of the same tree," and "originate from the same source." 

Complete disregard for our fellow human beings, coupled with the fact that over 2 billion people adhere to a 2600-year-old book that is as divisive as any ever written, will lead to our terrestrial demise. 

Dr. Martin Luther King eloquently stated, "We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers." Apparently, his quote, and the fact that he and myriad others, sacrificed their lives in an attempt to change the world for the better, is meaningless today. 

Virginia Burden's recitation, "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there," evidently has no value to the majority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself."


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